battle line

1. 1.

   the line along which warring troops meet

   Broaderline

   military

Questions about battle line

What does battle line mean?

battle line means "the line along which warring troops meet".

Is battle line a common word?

battle line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.